Proposal of a non-lethal visual census method to estimate freshwater stingray abundance

There is not a current method to estimate South American freshwater stingray’s abundance. Therefore we designed a census method and tested it in the field. It consists of making nocturnal surveys by boat in large rivers (>25m width) and floodplain lagoons of varying sizes, along transects of...

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article
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2016
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Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
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Repositorio Universidad Javeriana
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eng
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oai:repository.javeriana.edu.co:10554/30988
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http://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/scientarium/article/view/15364
http://hdl.handle.net/10554/30988
Palabra clave:
Marine Biology
density; Potamotrygonidae; Orinoco river basin; Colombia.
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